UK & World News

I wish Jim would pick this up again & fix some bugs/update it. It's easily, imo, the best news app out there. I'd happily pay for it too. Just imagine, at £1/user, Jim could easily earn £1m if everyone who downloaded it previously supported him. Even if only 5% of people coughed up, that's still £50k for a few days' work. Come on Jim, how about it?

"Media playback is unsupported on this device" keeps appearing recently. Normally I would give it 5 stars. I tried installing something to play the videos but it hasn't made a difference. Android Sony Xperia. A week later and still can't watch the videos. Only a recent problem but about half the headlines I click on are videos at the moment and it's very frustrating....

Favorite app for years. I'd check it multiple times a day.. It's just not taken care of anymore. Half the articles are unsupported videos, categories don't work. It's a shame, I'd gladly pay for the app if it was updated, I have to use something else now.

Media not available for this devise! All I want to do is read the article!!!! Do you think everyone has lost the art of reading? If I wanted to watch a video, I'd go to YouTube! GIVE ME BACK THE OPTION TO READ THE NEWS!

I like this app but have one problem. When there are videos as part of a news story it will not play them saying: "Media playback is not supported on your device" I thought maybe it's just that particular device and it will surely work on others. But, no, I've tried it on several other devices with similar disappointing results. I have to switch to the BBC News app itself to watch video. Please find a solution for this problem.

Can you flag stories that are video...or better still allow samsung phone users to play the videos. It is really annoying to click on an interesting item only fir it to go to media not supported on your device

Used to love this app but every story I click on it says video unsupported. I just want to eat the article. Very frustrating and a let down.

I have has this app on several smart phones, for several years. Devs ... I now have the latest flagship samsung, and I still cannot play media. Come on sort this issue out please. 1 star until fix! ????

Doesn't cache or refresh, videos don't work or display accompanying text. Ridiculous quantity of categories, not all work. Poor ui design. Avoid.

I cannot watch videos. Sometimes it gets stuck and does not refresh. It used to be much better. Shame.

video playback has stopped working. Real shame as I had used it for years.

Thank you for the fix!! I would pay £1 happily I think most would...PayPal link please! Thanks once again to Jim for maintaining this :)

Best news app. Hands down. Latest up date fixed the freezing problems.

easily used to be the best news app I'd found but recently seems to have gone downhill. it doesn't seem to handle video media from BBC news well and has really high network usage recently - not sure what it's downloading in the background

I've used this app on a daily basis for years. Because the Media playback is no longer supported I have no choice but to uninstall it as I can no longer access the articles I wish to read. Going to try the BBC News app instead. Such a shame.

Too high data usage - downloads way more contents than I actually view. (Also compared to other similar apps.) Cannot watch the video stories (playback not supported on this device). Sometimes I have to reload a story to actually see it.

The "media playback is unsupported on your device" app. The "help" option takes you to a page that no longer exists and the section for "Olympics 2012" is obviously very useful.

It's a great source of news I otherwise wouldn't get in the US but it's frustrating that so many of the stories are video only and the playback is not supported on any Android device I've ever owned

This app consumed 1.7gb of data in 3 days.

Media playback is unsupported on your device... so what's the point?? Sort it out!

Used up 2gb data in one week.

Download if you love to give a rats about America's problems, trumps done this, trumps said that, it's depressing, don't waste your valuable time

Great app, thanks for fixing it.

I have always had this news app on my phone. Never had a problem with this app.

For some reason it's decided to open with giant font, so one word on the screen at a time.

My favourite BBC news app, but pretty much half the articles are unplayable media now.

Fixed again! Hurrah! Thank you very much! Brilliant app!

Half the stories

Breaks a lot

Pretty good

Great app. Broke for a short while, then it got fixed. Made me realise how much I use it as i really missed it.. I'd be happy paying a quid for this, per use that would work out at 0.0001 pence a go. As others have said, make a paid one and I'll happily use my Google rewards money to bung you a quid.

Was loving this app, but now it's started either freezing or stopping every time I try to own it. Please fix, because I've been using this one for years as my main source of news! *Update* Freeze bug all fixed - it's awesome again! Best news app bar none...

Worked on all my phones. Never had a problem with it. Untill 2014 when it keeps bringing up old news from 2012 and 2011.... sort it out please. Another edit. Stopped working in march 2017 :( Started working again :)

This app used to work very quickly and easily. However now every article reads 'summary unavailable' under the main topic heading, which is not very useful and means you have to click on the story to find out what it's about, whether it interests you or not. Have tried reinstalling with no luck.

The fix for hanging has apparently slowed loading of headlines to a crawl. Articles that haven't loaded details now show "summary unavailable" rather than "summary not loaded" or "summary loading" depending on app state. Also, refreshing the feed forgets previously loaded summaries, exacerbating the problem.

Was working great until the freezing issue last week. Update sorted that but news summery is still constantly unavailable, please fix, not very usable as it is. Given up uninstalled.

My first app in the morning. Has replaced my morning paper. It froze for a couple days so I looked for a replacement but none had as nice of a layout where I can scroll thru dozens of stories in seconds

A great news app, great layout better than BBCs own! Given 4* because recently constantly says 'summary unavailable!' On every other article.

What's happened to this app? It used to be brilliant but now everything just reads Summary Unavailable. I used to look at this app on a daily basis. Shame.

It's well balanced with different types of stories and always up to date. But the pictures are often small, blurry or missing, and links are not always present, even when referenced. Update (3/8/16): A reinstall restored the giant text to normal size. I still want to see pictures and graphics.